Aviation Strategy Podcast Summaries

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SAS: How 3 Countries Built (and Destroyed) the Perfect Airline...
Flight Formula
Mar 24, 2026
A business built as a diplomatic compromise cannot survive the brutal efficiency of a deregulated market. Simon Dean reveals how SAS’s unique multi-national structure, once a strength in pioneering polar routes, became the structural anchor that ultimately dragged the carrier into a New York bankruptcy court.
Key insight: To conquer the North Pole in 1954, SAS navigators used a "sky compass" that read polarized light patterns from the hidden sun, allowing them to navigate through weeks of endless Arctic twilight where magnetic compasses failed.